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president chiu. >> president chiu: first of all as someone who regularly uses car sharing services in san francisco and as legislator in this area i want to cosponsor supervisor wiener. i appreciate what you're doing in that area. i have two in memoriams, mr. fabs served our san francisco police department for 27 years from 1966 to 1993. he was known by former members of this board for his service, in protecting the public safety of our neighborhoods. there will be a memorialal service this friday at forest city. also would like to make an in memorium request for andy lee leecokeus a local small business owner who ran the sports bar at the ferry building for many years. he was also known as the mayor of golden gateway based on his close relationships in that neighborhood and that neighbors told me no one had more friends or more generous than andy. he served as a army ranger in the korean war. we will miss him dearly. colleagues,'m also introducing a resolution today to congratulate the city college of san francisco on the upcoming completion and opening of the chinatown north beach c
president chiu. >> president chiu: first of all as someone who regularly uses car sharing services in san francisco and as legislator in this area i want to cosponsor supervisor wiener. i appreciate what you're doing in that area. i have two in memoriams, mr. fabs served our san francisco police department for 27 years from 1966 to 1993. he was known by former members of this board for his service, in protecting the public safety of our neighborhoods. there will be a memorialal service...
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. >> president chiu: i think it's 13 through 19. >> supervisor cohen: 13 through 19. >> president chiu: yes, 13 through 19. supervisor cohen's made a motion to rescind those items. there is a second? seconded by supervisor chu. any objection? without objection those items are rescinded. if we can take a roll call vote on items 13 through 19. >> angela calvillo: supervisor farrell, aye. supervisor kim, aye. supervisor mar, aye. supervisor olague, aye. supervisor wiener, aye. supervisor avalos, aye. supervisor campos, aye. president chiu, aye. supervisor chu, aye. supervisor cohen, aye. supervisor elsbernd, aye. there are 11 ayes. >> president chiu: those items are passed. and why don't we go to our 3:30 special commendations. i know our first commendation will be offered by supervisor avalos. supervisor avalos. >> supervisor avalos: thank you, president chiu. colleagues, i would like to call up ameal deguzman, a resident in my district, and has been a great public servant in it san francisco for a number of years. coming up now. colleagues, i'm excited today to honor emeal, on the occas
. >> president chiu: i think it's 13 through 19. >> supervisor cohen: 13 through 19. >> president chiu: yes, 13 through 19. supervisor cohen's made a motion to rescind those items. there is a second? seconded by supervisor chu. any objection? without objection those items are rescinded. if we can take a roll call vote on items 13 through 19. >> angela calvillo: supervisor farrell, aye. supervisor kim, aye. supervisor mar, aye. supervisor olague, aye. supervisor wiener,...
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filbert. >> president chiu: it's parallel. lombard and -- >> please put it on the agendas of any other properties. thank you. >> hi. members of the board of supervisors, ray hard -- san francisco open government. i would like to point out to this board of supervisors just as the prior speaker did, that often these things are agendized in a way that nobody who reads it can have any idea what it is. and it's hard to make public comment on an item when you can't do it without doing extensive research. and some of these are added at the very last minute. supporting documents are never subprovided on the website. and so basically you end up having to do research to try to figure out whether this is something that affects you, your community, someone you know, whatever. there is really no attempt by many of the boards and commissions in this city to be open to the citizens and their right to public comment. they will put things on an agenda in a way that you can't even understand what it is, let alone what it's supposed to do. i hav
filbert. >> president chiu: it's parallel. lombard and -- >> please put it on the agendas of any other properties. thank you. >> hi. members of the board of supervisors, ray hard -- san francisco open government. i would like to point out to this board of supervisors just as the prior speaker did, that often these things are agendized in a way that nobody who reads it can have any idea what it is. and it's hard to make public comment on an item when you can't do it without...
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. >> president chiu. >> president chiu: thank you. first, i want to thank the sponsor of this legislation, supervisor wiener, for his work in moving this through and i think he's dealt with a lot of the issues that were raised, both from the public safety community as well as from the secondhand community. there was one question and i have an amendment to address the situation. i want to appreciate the fact that this legislation really does help to minimize bureaucratic hassles for secondhand dealers interacting with city government and to focus on goods that are more often than not the subject of criminal activity. one of those goods that was emoom rated in supervisor wiener's legislation vosms jewelry. i was approached by several small business folks within my district, who asked to ask that we exempt out jewelry that involved minimal amounts that typically would not be involved in criminal activity. so i have circulated a brief amendment that states that jewelry and watches would be encompassed by this legislation unless they have
. >> president chiu. >> president chiu: thank you. first, i want to thank the sponsor of this legislation, supervisor wiener, for his work in moving this through and i think he's dealt with a lot of the issues that were raised, both from the public safety community as well as from the secondhand community. there was one question and i have an amendment to address the situation. i want to appreciate the fact that this legislation really does help to minimize bureaucratic hassles for...
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president chiu. >> president chiu: first i want to take a moment and thank everyone in the chamber who has been working for years on this project, from the community advocates to our colleagues to our predecessors and particularly our city staff. thank you. it has been 14 years since cca was first discussed at the board, eight years since the board of supervisors moved forward, a desire for our city to consider this, over a year with this contract on the table. and from my perspective, i do think it is time for us to move forward. i have supported the concept of cca for the entire time i've been in public life. but we know that there have been previous attempts to move this forward which i was not as comfortable with what we have today. i think there have been a number of changes in recent months and weeks that have made this better. first, i want to highlight what mr. harrington has stated, the fact that we are seeing potentially 10 times efficiency in how we are investing our public dollars and being able to reduce carbon emissions, that is a very notable fact. i think the fact that
president chiu. >> president chiu: first i want to take a moment and thank everyone in the chamber who has been working for years on this project, from the community advocates to our colleagues to our predecessors and particularly our city staff. thank you. it has been 14 years since cca was first discussed at the board, eight years since the board of supervisors moved forward, a desire for our city to consider this, over a year with this contract on the table. and from my perspective, i...
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i guess i'll go two weeks. >> president chiu: okay. supervisor olague has made a motion to continue this item to to weeks. i think that would put it to -- >> clerk calvillo: october 16. >> president chiu: two weeks, october 2nd. is there a second to that motion? motion seconded by supervisor avalos. supervisor wiener. >> supervisor wiener: mr. president, thank you. i will not be supporting this continuance. and this is the first i'm hearing that any member of this body was interested in a continuance. this legislation has been thoroughly and fully vetted and i believe what supervisor olague is referring to is a portion of this legislation. right now, if you rent out a spot in your residence or your building to someone who doesn't live there, our planning code requires that the person live within 1250 feet of the parking spot. this is in the planning code. it's two and a half blocks. it's unenforceable. it depresses the price of parking inconsistent with city policy and also undermines the city policy of disaggregating housing and parki
i guess i'll go two weeks. >> president chiu: okay. supervisor olague has made a motion to continue this item to to weeks. i think that would put it to -- >> clerk calvillo: october 16. >> president chiu: two weeks, october 2nd. is there a second to that motion? motion seconded by supervisor avalos. supervisor wiener. >> supervisor wiener: mr. president, thank you. i will not be supporting this continuance. and this is the first i'm hearing that any member of this body...
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.] >> president chiu: mr. harrington, if you have any words you want to say although i'll say after supervisor elsbernd's comments i think those of us from the chinese community, from the lgbt community, the the latino community, african-american community, everyone in san francisco we claim you as our own. i just want you to know that. >> and i appreciate that. i really do want to thank everybody for the kind words. it's been a wonderful place here. i have been blessed with having two of the best jobs in the world. i will be brief. two of the best jobs in the city, city controller and head of the public utilities commission. couldn't have asked for anything better than that. i counted over the weekend, i've worked with 48 members of the board of supervisors, as controller or at the puc. and i think i've gotten along with the vast majority of them. but i would like to commend this board particularly, your professional respectful way of dealing with each other and with staff and with the public is really someth
.] >> president chiu: mr. harrington, if you have any words you want to say although i'll say after supervisor elsbernd's comments i think those of us from the chinese community, from the lgbt community, the the latino community, african-american community, everyone in san francisco we claim you as our own. i just want you to know that. >> and i appreciate that. i really do want to thank everybody for the kind words. it's been a wonderful place here. i have been blessed with having...
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thank you. >> president chiu: any further discussion? colleagues, first of all, on the amendments, if we could take the amendments without objection? that shall be the case. and on the underlying resolution to be adopted as amended, same house, same call? without objection the resolution is adopted. item 23. >> clerk calvillo: item 22, mr. president? >> president chiu: 22. >> clerk calvillo: an ordinance amending the planning code to permit existing gasoline and service stations located on 19th avenue to provide mechanical car washes on site. >> president chiu: passed on the first reading. >> clerk calvillo: item 23 an ordinance amending the planning code related to the transit impact development fee increase and update. >> president chiu: supervisor wiener. >> supervisor wiener: move to continue two weeks to october 2. >> president chiu: colleagues, supervisor wiener's made a motion to continue this item to the second of october, seconded by supervisor olague. any objection to the motion to continue? that shall be the case. item 24. >>
thank you. >> president chiu: any further discussion? colleagues, first of all, on the amendments, if we could take the amendments without objection? that shall be the case. and on the underlying resolution to be adopted as amended, same house, same call? without objection the resolution is adopted. item 23. >> clerk calvillo: item 22, mr. president? >> president chiu: 22. >> clerk calvillo: an ordinance amending the planning code to permit existing gasoline and service...
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. >> president chiu: thank you, supervisor campos. i will quibble with one thing. you said there are seven attorneys, there are six. supervisor elsbernd. >> supervisor elsbernd: in 2005 when you came i think there were a lot of folks who thought there is no way anybody could replace ted lakey. i think we all knew within a couple of months you were the perfect person for this job, and that was a different time, but what has always remained consistent is your professionalism and your work. you've been fantastic. and what i will say to john, you have a very difficult person to follow. and when it comes to me, admittedly, you have a very short time left with me but one of sheryl's great skills i'm not sure everybody here is aware of, with me, whether i was sitting in supervisor kim's chair or sitting here, i have a tendency to be sarcastic every now and then and lose my temper. sheryl would have ability with just a look to let me know i was going over the edge. she and monique have a special place in that regard. john, you've got to find a way to communicate that to me
. >> president chiu: thank you, supervisor campos. i will quibble with one thing. you said there are seven attorneys, there are six. supervisor elsbernd. >> supervisor elsbernd: in 2005 when you came i think there were a lot of folks who thought there is no way anybody could replace ted lakey. i think we all knew within a couple of months you were the perfect person for this job, and that was a different time, but what has always remained consistent is your professionalism and your...
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. >> president chiu: recognize another one of our colleagues who we occasionally heard as an attorney, supervisor campos. >> supervisor campos: i wasn't sure who the resolution was referring to with respect to that issue. but as an attorney, i do know that -- >> [laughter.] >> supervisor campos: that some of your worst clients can be attorneys. so -- and you have six of the 11 here. and i just want to take this opportunity to say that i think you have handled yourself brilliantly. i think that the very tough and complicated issues that come your way, and quite frankly in the last couple of years, we've had some pretty interesting and unique matters that have come before the board of supervisors. and i think that you have always, you know, approached it very professionally and very objectively, and have had the patience to deal with each and every one of us. so it's greatly appreciated. and i know that the trial team is lucky to have you. and we look forward to continuing to interact with you, and of course having john join the team, it's exciting. sheryl, as a colleague, as a friend,
. >> president chiu: recognize another one of our colleagues who we occasionally heard as an attorney, supervisor campos. >> supervisor campos: i wasn't sure who the resolution was referring to with respect to that issue. but as an attorney, i do know that -- >> [laughter.] >> supervisor campos: that some of your worst clients can be attorneys. so -- and you have six of the 11 here. and i just want to take this opportunity to say that i think you have handled yourself...
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president chiu. >> president chiu: colleagues, having thought about it and thought about the issue of potential continuance over the last few days, i am not prepared to support the continuance for a couple of reasons. first of all, we know that this issue has been in the works not just for months, but for years. and this question we're talking about has been a fundamental issue within this discussion. it has been frankly a little surprising to me that the issue has come up at the last moment. i know we have colleagues and members of the administration that have had questions vis-a-vis the city attorney's office. i hoped we would be able to -- beforehand but i not heard any articulation about information that we are going to learn over the next week that ought to change our minds on this. and i think that there is a majority of this body that is prepared to move forward with this today. that being said, let me state that if there are any new pieces of information between the first reading and the second reading, i think we will always be open to hearing about things. and if there are t
president chiu. >> president chiu: colleagues, having thought about it and thought about the issue of potential continuance over the last few days, i am not prepared to support the continuance for a couple of reasons. first of all, we know that this issue has been in the works not just for months, but for years. and this question we're talking about has been a fundamental issue within this discussion. it has been frankly a little surprising to me that the issue has come up at the last...
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farrell: thank you, president chiu. a few comments, colleagues. we talked about a number of the amendments. it goes to the definition of choice and i believe creating an opt-out program for residents in our districts is not choice. to me there is absolutely no reason why any law should be an opt-in program such as this. it smells of coercion and that's not something i'm willing to vote for, for my residents in district 2 and for all representatives in san francis san francisco. supervisor campos, i too trust in ed harrington, his qualifications are impeccable but i want concrete numbers if i'm going to vote on nothing, or use that to vote on something and the fact is we have no numbers in front of us, they've never been presented to us, and to articulate that creating local power is a biproduct of this is a fallacy. i think when people articulate that and tell other folks that is part of what we're voting on today, that is untrue. i appreciate the fact that people have differences of opinion about how it may or may not
farrell: thank you, president chiu. a few comments, colleagues. we talked about a number of the amendments. it goes to the definition of choice and i believe creating an opt-out program for residents in our districts is not choice. to me there is absolutely no reason why any law should be an opt-in program such as this. it smells of coercion and that's not something i'm willing to vote for, for my residents in district 2 and for all representatives in san francis san francisco. supervisor...
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president chiu, aye. supervisor chu, no. supervisor cohen, no. supervisor else bernard, no. supervisor farrell, no. supervisor kim, no. there are three ayes and eight nos. mr. president, this ordinance has not been repealed and i will notify the department of elections. >> president chiu: that is the vote. if i could ask members of the public if you could leave quietly because we have a little more business to conduct today. colleagues, i had one additional 3:30 proclamation i wanted to offer. i'll give a moment for folks to cleave thclear the chamber. if i could ask members of the public if you could please take your conversations outside. >> president chiu: again, if i could ask members of the public if you could please take your conversations outside. so we can finish our business today. thank you. colleagues, i didn't want to interrupt the eight washington hearings with this final proclamation. but it is for someone who i know is not expecting it, who has been sitting in this chamber for the entire time, and we are now going to look at her. someone who has worked very cl
president chiu, aye. supervisor chu, no. supervisor cohen, no. supervisor else bernard, no. supervisor farrell, no. supervisor kim, no. there are three ayes and eight nos. mr. president, this ordinance has not been repealed and i will notify the department of elections. >> president chiu: that is the vote. if i could ask members of the public if you could leave quietly because we have a little more business to conduct today. colleagues, i had one additional 3:30 proclamation i wanted to...
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.] >> president chiu: thank you, ed. i want you to know i'd like to book you for half an afternoon every friday for the next year. >> [laughter.] >> president chiu: thank you very much. why don't we move to other business. we have several 4:00 special orders. madam clerk, could you call items 28 through 31. >> clerk calvillo: item 28 is a public hearing of persons interested in the decision of the department of public works dated august 9, 2012 approving a tentative map for two unit condominium conversation on dolores street. item 29 is motion approving the tentative parcel map. item 30 is a motion disapproving the tentative parcel map. item 31 is a motion directing the clerk to prepare findings. >> president chiu: so i'm going to open this public hearing and first acknowledge the supervisor from district 8, in whose district this project exists, supervisor wiener. >> supervisor wiener: thank you, mr. president. at the request of the appellant, in order to have a full opportunity for a briefing in this matter, once we op
.] >> president chiu: thank you, ed. i want you to know i'd like to book you for half an afternoon every friday for the next year. >> [laughter.] >> president chiu: thank you very much. why don't we move to other business. we have several 4:00 special orders. madam clerk, could you call items 28 through 31. >> clerk calvillo: item 28 is a public hearing of persons interested in the decision of the department of public works dated august 9, 2012 approving a tentative map...
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also to the puc. >> president chiu: mr. harrington. >> supervisor wiener: there's been some discussion about ultimately a local build-out being financed in some way by the revenues from the cca, whether it's with cash, or through bonding. and supervisor farrell referred to a concern that it just simply would not generate enough cash to be able to bond around it. so if you could respond to that. >> sure, supervisor. when you're trying to go out and build a major facility to produce power, the normal thing to do is to go out and borrow the money, borrow enough money to pay your debt service while constructing the facility and then when the facility is put in place, that revenue that then now generates by selling that power pays back the bonds. so that's the process for it. the idea would be that, as we work through the process, by having cca out there, by having a customer base, by having a revenue base, we become believable to bond rating agencies and those that might lend us the money. that's why you need the base but that
also to the puc. >> president chiu: mr. harrington. >> supervisor wiener: there's been some discussion about ultimately a local build-out being financed in some way by the revenues from the cca, whether it's with cash, or through bonding. and supervisor farrell referred to a concern that it just simply would not generate enough cash to be able to bond around it. so if you could respond to that. >> sure, supervisor. when you're trying to go out and build a major facility to...
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. >> president chiu: roll call vote. >> clerk calvillo: president chiu, aye. supervisor chu, aye. supervisor cohen, aye. supervisor elsbernd, aye. supervisor farrell, aye. supervisor kim, aye. supervisor mar, aye. supervisor olague, aye. supervisor wiener, aye. supervisor avalos, aye. supervisor campos, aye. >> clerk calvillo: there are 11 ayes. >> president chiu: resolution is adopted. item 19. >> clerk calvillo: item 19, resolution authorizing the public utilities commission to accept and expend the department of water resources administered grant in the amount of approximately $863,000 for a high efficient toilet installation program. >> president chiu: same house, same call. this resolution is adopted. >> the clerk: item 20, resolution establishing rent and term for a second extension and confirming a sublease extension with the unified school district for real property on mission street for general assistant services from the human services agency. >> president chiu: same house, same call this resolution is adopted. >> clerk calvillo: item 21, resolution to consider the issua
. >> president chiu: roll call vote. >> clerk calvillo: president chiu, aye. supervisor chu, aye. supervisor cohen, aye. supervisor elsbernd, aye. supervisor farrell, aye. supervisor kim, aye. supervisor mar, aye. supervisor olague, aye. supervisor wiener, aye. supervisor avalos, aye. supervisor campos, aye. >> clerk calvillo: there are 11 ayes. >> president chiu: resolution is adopted. item 19. >> clerk calvillo: item 19, resolution authorizing the public...
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. >> president chiu: the resolutions are adopted. why don't we go to our committee report, item 19. >> angela calvillo: item 19 was considered by the rules committee at a regular meeting on thursday, september 6, and was recommended as amended with a new title sent to the board as a committee report. it's a motion approving the president of the board of supervisors, supervisor david chiu's nomination of arcelia hurtado for the board of appeals ending july 1, 2016. >> president chiu: same house, same call? without objection, this motion is approved. and why don't we now go to roll call. >> angela calvillo: supervisor farrell, you are first. >> supervisor farrell: i have one item, an in memory, i'd like to adjourn in the memory of chuck hug begins. he passed away at his home and was 87 years old. he was the former president and ceo of seas canneddies a beloved san francisco institution. he worked there as a manager in the packing department and in 1972 selling the company to warren buster amon buffett. as a philanthropist he was a gene
. >> president chiu: the resolutions are adopted. why don't we go to our committee report, item 19. >> angela calvillo: item 19 was considered by the rules committee at a regular meeting on thursday, september 6, and was recommended as amended with a new title sent to the board as a committee report. it's a motion approving the president of the board of supervisors, supervisor david chiu's nomination of arcelia hurtado for the board of appeals ending july 1, 2016. >> president...
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supervisor chiu. supervisor chiu: thank you, and i appreciate your consideration of this matter. there are a number of proposals which have been moved forward to contemplate how we reform our current payroll tax to a gross receipts tax as well as increases to our business license fee. i want to thank supervisors avalos for his leadership as well as mayor lee for the proposal he and i have been working on. i want thank our city economist for the tremendous amount of work that they have done over the past six months to move this forward. colleagues, today, there are a number of technical amendments that i would like to make to the measure that mayor lee and i had, and i believe supervisor avalos will be making the same technical changes to his version. in general, they are language cleanups, technical corrections to definitions of financial services, other clerical corrections. if it makes sense to have controller walk through some of the specifics, i would suggest that, but otherwise, these are mostly technical amendments to be hopefully adopted today. it is my hope we can continu
supervisor chiu. supervisor chiu: thank you, and i appreciate your consideration of this matter. there are a number of proposals which have been moved forward to contemplate how we reform our current payroll tax to a gross receipts tax as well as increases to our business license fee. i want to thank supervisors avalos for his leadership as well as mayor lee for the proposal he and i have been working on. i want thank our city economist for the tremendous amount of work that they have done over...
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. >> president chiu: thank you. supervisor kim, i understand, has introduced a series of amendments that are supported by myself, supervisors cohen and mar. seconded by supervisor mar. why don't we hold that. i know there are other amendments that will also be offered. supervisor chu. >> supervisor chu: i want to thank colleagues for their thoughts and comments. this item came before the budget and finance committee. we voted to send it out but it was a societ vote 3-1. i dissentd i -- dissented. two of the most important reasons were around the issue of opt out and around the issue of the reserves. in terms of the opt out, we know very much that this is a restriction that the state has put upon us with the enabling legislation and because of that we had to structure a program that has opt out provisions. however i thought there was ways potentially to strengthen the program and make sure we're not inadvertently capturing individuals who did not want to be in the program. the second has to do with the reserve. curre
. >> president chiu: thank you. supervisor kim, i understand, has introduced a series of amendments that are supported by myself, supervisors cohen and mar. seconded by supervisor mar. why don't we hold that. i know there are other amendments that will also be offered. supervisor chu. >> supervisor chu: i want to thank colleagues for their thoughts and comments. this item came before the budget and finance committee. we voted to send it out but it was a societ vote 3-1. i dissentd i...